Month: September 2015

The phrase has become annoyingly familiar to us: nowadays it seems that everyone is “thinking outside the box.” Like every catchy slogan, it grabs your attention by capturing a key concept perfectly with a few choice words. You don’t have… Read More ›

Faithful are the wounds of a friend, but the kisses of an enemy are deceitful. Proverbs 27:6 “We wanted to say something, but…”. I recognize the plaintive tone and the guilty trailing off of a thought left incomplete. There’s no… Read More ›

I can have a lot of in-depth and sometimes difficult conversations with people, on any number of issues. But there’s one subject that continues to baffle me by the raw passion it induces: tipping at restaurants. From the reactions I… Read More ›